1. This is a word that makes a description sound more negative:
“No thanks. Sunscreen makes my skin feel ___ oily.”
2.This means to continue to work hard on something for a long time:
“You have to keep ___ ___, you know?”
3. A word that means to start burning:
“You can hear the gas coming out when you turn the knob, but it doesn't ___.”
4. When you want someone to tell you something, use this polite expression:
“Skim over it and ___ ___ ___ if you have any questions.”
5. An way to describe something that gr

Below are lists of words that vary only by one having the sound /b/ and the other the sound /p/. You can use this to practise the sounds or as a list of words to be careful to pronounce properly.

The main difference between /b/ and /p/ is that /b/ is a voiced sound, whereas /p/ is just produced by the puff of air. Also, /b/ is pronounced with less air released than /p/, and this can sometimes be a more useful distinction as it is difficult to feel the vocal cords vibrating when making the /b/ sound.

Building your English vocabulary can be a tedious task. But, when you discover a new word, its opposite meaning can instantly double your list. Of course, opposites are associated with adjectives, adverbs, verbs ans prepositions. Rarely do you find opposites in other parts of speech.

Look at these new words and try to guess their opposites (answers at the end):

A married couple is traveling by car from Victoria to Prince George . Being Seniors, after almost eleven hours on the road, they were too tired to continue, and decided to take a room at a hotel. But, they only planned to sleep for four hours and then get back on the road.
When they checked out four hours later, the desk clerk handed them a bill for $350.00.

Americans pronounce these two words the same way, making the short "e" vowel sound. "Ben", of course in the nickname for Benjamin, while "been" is the past participle of the irregular verb "to be." The American "been" has the same sound as the words: bet, let, get and sweat and, of course, the nickname Ben. The British "been" rhymes with: seen, teen, queen and bean.

Many Russian students get confused over the sound of the short "i" vowel sound and the long "e" vowel sound. Words like - it, bit. kit and difficult sound like - eet, beet, keet and deef-fee-kult.

Have you ever see a Thesaurus? You won't find one in a museum of natural history. Nor, will you encounter one in a wax museum or on the pages of a history book. You may be astonished to discover that the Thesaurus is not yet extinct. It has survived the ages. In fact, it's a book!

Yes, it's a book - a rather interesting book at that, and a wonderful resourse to increase your vocabulary and reading comprehension.

If you are not familiar with a Thesaurus, bear with me. A Thesaurus is a book of like words. I like to call it a book of "almost synonymes."